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HONG KONG: LETTERS FROM MR JAMES JOHNSON MP AND MR FRANK HOOLEY MP

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1. Mr James Johnson MP (Labour Kingston-upon-Hull West) 15

wrote to Lord Goronwy-Roberts on 23 September, following up

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assistance which he had received from Mrs Mathilda Cheung,

Chairman of the Hong Kong Government Shorthand-Audio Typists

Association. Lord Goronwy-Roberts replied to Mr Johnson's

first letter on 15 September. Mrs Cheung has also written

to Mr Frank Hooley MP (Labour Heeley), who wrote to the

Secretary of State on 23 September. Mr Evan Luard MP has

also received two letters from Mrs Cheung, dated 30 July and

15 September, and she has also written to Mr Stewart, Head

of this department: all three of these letters were in

virtually identical terms to the letters to Mr Johnson and

Mr Hooley.

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2. The Hong Kong Government sent detailed comments on the

ase in a letter of 1 September. From this, and from

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Mrs Cheung's letters it emerges that the shorthand and audio

typists do have a genuine case for dissatisfaction, since their

status and pay relative to female workers in other grades of

the Hong Kong government service have fallen appreciably

over the past 6 years. On the other hand, this has come about

largely as a result of steps taken by the Hong Kong

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